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Chinese police give high-beams abusers taste of their own medicine

Also: Stunt driver does entire Nurburgring in car tilted on two wheels; 1,100-plus Ram pickups set largest truck parade record

Police in southern China are allegedly meting out punishment to drivers who abuse their high-beam headlights by sitting the offenders down and shining the dazzling lights into their eyes.

Shenzhen Traffic Police posted photos on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Facebook, of officers forcing people to stare into a set of high-beams for a minute, reports the BBC.

The bizarre punishment – which some websites inexplicably describe as optional – was first tried in 2014, but criticism then pushed the force to shut it down. The reaction this time has been much more positive.

Improper use of high-beams also comes with a fine equivalent to $44 US in China.

Nine out of the top 15 most expensive cars sold at auction were sold by RM Sotheby’s. But they’re pretty versatile. You can also buy this pristine 1991 Pontiac minivan from them at their upcoming end-of-November auction in Italy. (via RM Sotheby’s with photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s)

Chinese stunt driver Yue Han just set a 45-minute lap time in a new MINI Cooper on Germany’s famous Nurburgring, which takes most sports cars about 10 minutes. Why so slow? He did all 21 kms of it on two wheels. (via Jalopnik)

Even these trucks were probably faster than Yue! The other record set on the Nurburgring recently was for world’s largest parade of pickup trucks. Some 1,152 Ram trucks circled the ‘Ring, besting the old record, set in Mexico, by more than 700. (via YouTube)